[nvda] Re: A possible bug in NVDA latest snapshot?

Technically, this is not a status line. It is in a dialog. You can read the information at the bottom of the dialog using the object navigation keys. JAWS uses the status line command to simply read the last line at the bottom of the screen in many cases whether it is a status line or not. I tested this by starting to download a file using Internet Explorer. While in the download dialog, I used the read status bar command and found that JAWS reads something like open, cancel, and another item. This is simply the bottom line of the screen and is not a status bar. I don't know if NVDA should use the same command to read the last line in a dialog. It may be that another command would have to be added that would read the bottom line of a dialog or of any window you are in. This may have something to do with NVDA's reliance on MSAA to make objects readable. Others with the technical knowledge to discuss such matters will have to do so further.
Don't assume that just because a screen-reader reads something that it is the same structure as something else in a different window that is read. Use Keyboard help in JAWS and issue the Read status line command. You will receive a message that says almost exactly, reads the bottom line of the current window. That tells you it is not performing the same task as the NVDA read status line command. 

Gene
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Dalgaard" <tbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 3:31 PM
Subject: [nvda] Re: A possible bug in NVDA latest snapshot?



Hello Brian!
What happends if you do copy a huge folder from your harddrive A to another 
place on such drive or something else?
I managed to find the time-line with the object navigator. But I think this is made as a status-bar originally and therefor my question. What does it do 
on your system?

Here the status-bar does nothing at all when using this dialog.

Best wishes
Thomas
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Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 11:26 PM
Subject: [nvda] Re: A possible bug in NVDA latest snapshot?



I don't know the defaults for your locale of Windows, but can you fiddle
about in view  to get something to appear that nvda can read? Do you
really
want the figures, or would a progress bar be better. I cannot understand
how
it might be different in your language, its hard to imagine it .

Brian

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Dalgaard" <tbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 8:24 PM
Subject: [nvda] A possible bug in NVDA latest snapshot?


Hello!

I wrote two days ago about an issue on my Danish Windows XP Home PC. Can
anyone of you get it right if using a English version of XP?

Well here is the issue:
When coppying files from one location to another I cannot read the
status-bar where the time is shown. E.g it could be: 2 minutes left or
something like that. I can find it with the object navigation, but I guess 
it is shown where the status-bar was supposed to be. At least on my PC no
version of NVDA found this information when I tried the NVDA + End key.
Now,
I'm using the latest snapshot version of NVDA.
So is it a bug or am I totally wrong?

Best wishes
Thomas




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